Half-caste bandit Omkara Shukla abducts his lady love, Dolly Mishra, from her family. Thanks to his cleverness, he gets away with the kidnapping. A conspiracy, however, forms against him when he denies his right-hand man, Langda Tyagi, a promotion. Ultimately, this plot threatens not only his relationship with Dolly, but their lives and those of their associates as well.
Acting
Saif's Langda Tyagi — career reinvention, pure venomous brilliance.
Writing
Vishal Bhardwaj's Khariboli adaptation makes Othello viscerally Indian.
Direction
Rural Uttar Pradesh as suffocating pressure cooker of ambition.
Director
Vishal Bhardwaj
Ajay Devgn
Omkara 'Omi' Shukla
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Dolly Mishra
Saif Ali Khan
Ishwar 'Langda' Tyagi
Vivek Oberoi
Keshav 'Kesu Firangi' Upadhyaya
Konkona Sen Sharma
Indu Tyagi
Deepak Dobriyal
Rajan 'Rajju' Tiwari
Naseeruddin Shah
Bhaisaab
Bipasha Basu
Billo Chamanbahar
Pankaj Tripathi
Kichlu
Kamal Tiwari
Advocate Raghunath Mishra
Manav Kaushik
Surendra Kaptaan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Saif Ali Khan initially rejected Langda Tyagi fearing audience rejection; he won the Filmfare Best Villain award and redefined his career.
Bhardwaj relocated Othello from Venetian military hierarchy to UP's political-criminal nexus, making caste ambition (Langda's resentment) drive Iago's classical grievance.
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